Hello readers 👋, welcoming you again to the “Appwrite OSS Fund” sequence, the place we rejoice open-source maintainers. 🎉
🤔 What Is OSS Fund?
On the 4th of Could, the Appwrite group launched the OSS Fund, an initiative to assist open-source undertaking maintainers. Being an open-source firm, we wished to provide again to the neighborhood and assist as many individuals as we are able to.
The OSS Fund is an initiative that could be very near our coronary heart.
Hear what our Founder and CEO has to say – The Appwrite Story:
📢 Asserting The Seventh Venture
After cautious issues from the committee we’re thrilled to announce the seventh undertaking:
Open supply has the facility to alter know-how for good 💪We’re excited to sponsor an open supply design and collaboration platform @presentatorio, as part of our OSS Fund sponsorship 🥳
🔗 Appwrite OSS Fund continues to be accepting purposes – appwrite.io/oss-fund
13:36 PM – 07 Oct 2022
🤔 What Is Presentator?
Presentator is a free and open supply design presentation and collaboration platform.
Its most important aim is to assist designers to share their mockups and prototypes with others in order that they will collect suggestions extra simply and orderly.
🤝 Meet The Maintainer
Gani, who’s a software program developer from Sofia, Bulgaria is the maintainer of Presentator.
He’s presently working remotely as group lead for a small Belgium firm that develops park administration and entry controls options. One of the best half about his job is, a versatile reduced-hour working mannequin (4 days work week), which permits him to spend extra time on my interest open supply initiatives.
💡 How Did The Concept Of Presentator Come Up?
The concept of Presentator was born again in ~2016/2017 when at work Gani and his group had a consumer with very strict NDAs that did not permit them to share any digital property, associated to the initiatives that they had been working on the time, with different third events. Briefly, something associated to the undertaking was allowed to exist solely inside their entry restricted inside community. After listening to the complaints of the designers about this, Gani determined to create a self-hosted design presentation platform and thus Presentator was born.
🚘 The Journey So Far
Presentator was born as an concept to assist designers. There have been additionally different points with the prevailing prototyping and design sharing instruments – they had been clunky and sluggish, most of them have complicated and cluttered interface which regularly brought on confusions for non-technical customers.
🗒️ Ending Notes
As Gani continues to work on his undertaking, he needs to thank Appwrite and everybody who supported him.
In his phrases:
“Due to the Appwrite group and everybody else who determined to assist Presentator and my open supply journey. It actually means rather a lot to me!”
If this story resonates with you or your good friend, inform them about OSS Fund, as purposes are nonetheless open: